Smadavmain.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Smadavmain.exe executable file belongs to a malicious program that can accurately be recognized as a coin miner trojan. That malware form utilizes your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer pretty much unusable as a result of high CPU utilization.

What is Smadavmain.exe process?

Smadavmain.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus

Smadavmain.exe – Extremely high CPU and GPU usage

Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners also utilize GPU power for their operations. In that situation, you will struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually utilized on 100%. It is not as vital as CPU for system work, so Smadavmain.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and utilize all of it. It often may cause sad consequences.

Shortly about cryptocurrency mining

List of the typical coin miner symptoms

Your device overheats (system unit/laptop body is very hot)

You are not able to open your apps or they are opening for ages

Unknown process is running in the background and consumes your PC resources

Windows Defender does not respond

How dangerous is the Smadavmain.exe miner?

Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system

First off, Smadavmain.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, as all processor power is used by a malware. That malware does not care for your needs, all it focuses on is generating income on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely suffer from extremely sluggish performance. Pages will open up for years, any sort of logins will likely take about a minute – just a headache for a person that does a job online.

Smadavmain.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Smadavmain.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Vgtray.exe, Runtimebroker.exe, Rthdvcpl.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Smadavmain.exe removal.

“Visible” damage is not a solitary negative thing coin miners perform to your personal computer. Smadavmain.exe coin miner also deals damage to your operating system. To complete all malevolent functions successfully, it wrecks the security components of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware stops it to avoid recognition. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a lot of new entries – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your computer to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes are about to be thrown back to the initial state in the process of system recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides slowing down your computer, performing at peak level for a long period of time may trigger damage to your device and increase power expenses. Hardware components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.

Tiny and covered processor fan is hard to broke. Meanwhile, GPUs have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if touched while spinning, for instance, by the user much earlier before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the really high load caused by Smadavmain.exe virus can easily lead to graphic card failure³. Video cards are also tend to have fast wearing when used for cryptocurrency mining. It is surely an undesirable case when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Smadavmain.exe coin miner virus?

Coin miners are spread through different ways, but their main sources are malicious banners and programs from dubious sources

The example of malicious banners you can see in the Internet

An additional way you could get this item on your computer is by downloading it from the suspicious web page as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked versions of well-known programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to earn money. Therefore, there is a very big lure to add malware to the final package of the hacked application and acquire a coin for every setup. Before criticizing these individuals for hacking and malware spreading, ask yourself – is it alright to avoid paying for the program in this manner? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much bigger sum for antivirus software as well as new parts for your PC.

How to remove the Smadavmain.exe miner from my PC?

The best way to get rid of this coin miner virus is to use anti-malware software

Booting the PC into Safe Mode with Networking

Press the Start button, then choose Power, and click on Reboot while holding the Shift key on the keyboard.

Windows will reboot into recovery mode. In that mode, choose Troubleshoot→ Startup Settings→ Safe Mode with Networking. Press the corresponding button on your keyboard to choose that option.

When your system is in Safe Mode, all third-party applications, just like the majority of non-critical system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the computer without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.